Study: Major Gaps Block Genetics Evaluation and Testing for Black and Low Income Patients

Newswise of Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania |
December 2025
Press Release

This press release describes crucial findings from a joint study by the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts General Hospital. The research team highlights systemic obstacles in primary care, lack of referral guidelines, and workforce shortages, and they call for interventions like decision-support flags in electronic health records, embedded genetic counselors in primary care, and expanded tele-genetics to help close these gaps and make precision medicine more equitable.